Have you Googled yourself lately? With college admissions offices using social networks like Facebook, Twitter and My Space to find information about applicants, what you do on the web can have a lasting effect, good or bad. The online profiles that you create now as a middle schooler can last a lifetime. Your web presence is how many people will be introduced to who you are.
Learning Targets
I will:
Advocate and practice safe, legal and responsible use of information and technology.
Communicate my ideas to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
Identify trends in social media and online behavior in order to respond to them.
Living Faster Daily life in the age of nonstop connection. Relationships How technology is changing friendship, parenting and love. Waging War The changing nature of warfare in the 21st century. Virtual Worlds The remarkable power of alternate realities. Learning How to educate children for the digital age.
On the web: FlixtimeYou will need to sign up for an account
Animoto Sign up tutorialYou will need to sign up for Animoto with a promo code that Mrs. Johnson gives you PhotopeachYou can log into photopeach with the username emscheetahs and the password that Mrs. Johnson gives you. On the school network:
Photostory
Moviemaker
Browse the video segments in the PBS Digital Nation series. Choose one to respond to. Embed the video segment in your blog and write a thoughtful, well written reaction/response post.
Who are you, in the digital sense? Create a post that illustrates your digital life. It should incorporate multimedia, but can also have a written explanation.
Week 3: Digital Citizenship Learning Targets: I will:
Advocate and practice safe, legal and responsible use of information and technology.
Communicate my ideas to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
Identify trends in social media and online behavior in order to respond to them.
AASL 3: Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.
3.3.3 Use knowledge and information skills and dispositions to engage in public conversation and debate around issues
of common concern. NETS 4: Digital Citizenship - Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
Skills: Incorporate images into blog post that include proper attribution, manipulate images using online tools
Read/watch video segments and articles to learn about the impact, possibilities and consequences of online behaviors
Read/watch tutorial to learn about embedding media in blog posts
Write a well crafted response and reaction post.
Blog Assignments:
Browse the video segments in the PBS Digital Nation series. Choose one to respond to. Embed the video segment in your blog and write a thoughtful, well written reaction and response post.
Create a post that illustrates your digital life. It can be written, or shown visually in a multimedia product, or both
Living Faster Daily life in the age of nonstop connection. Relationships How technology is changing friendship, parenting and love. Waging War The changing nature of warfare in the 21st century. Virtual Worlds The remarkable power of alternate realities. Learning How to educate children for the digital age.
Table of Contents
Learning Targets
I will:Resources,Tools, and Tutorials
Relationships How technology is changing friendship, parenting and love.
Waging War The changing nature of warfare in the 21st century.
Virtual Worlds The remarkable power of alternate realities.
Learning How to educate children for the digital age.
Embedding media in a blog post
How to write your Reaction Post
Planning a multimedia presentation
FlixtimeYou will need to sign up for an account
Animoto Sign up tutorialYou will need to sign up for Animoto with a promo code that Mrs. Johnson gives you
PhotopeachYou can log into photopeach with the username emscheetahs and the password that Mrs. Johnson gives you.
On the school network:
Photostory
Moviemaker
Digital Life Post-Using Animoto: Phoebe's "Senses in My Digital Life"
Digital Life Photopeach:
Assignments
Two posts:Standards Aligned Plan
NETS Standards for Students
AASL 21st Century Learner
Learning Targets:
I will:
3.3.3 Use knowledge and information skills and dispositions to engage in public conversation and debate around issues
of common concern.
NETS 4: Digital Citizenship - Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
- Read/watch video segments and articles to learn about the impact, possibilities and consequences of online behaviors
- Read/watch tutorial to learn about embedding media in blog posts
- Write a well crafted response and reaction post.
Blog Assignments:Relationships How technology is changing friendship, parenting and love.
Waging War The changing nature of warfare in the 21st century.
Virtual Worlds The remarkable power of alternate realities.
Learning How to educate children for the digital age.